Chapter 49: Nostalgia for Intimate Days
How could Mrs. Dong not think that He Mai was annoying her because of why she was glaring at her, and the last time she talked to Liulang, I was afraid that she was hated by this girl!
Mrs. Dong glanced at the snack in Hemai's hand and swallowed deeply, but she hadn't eaten osmanthus cake for a few days, and she forgot what this cake tasted like!
"Girl, the market you went to with your Rokuro, right? Why haven't you seen anyone else? How tired are you moving things by yourself? I'll help you! Mrs. Dong pretended to be affectionate and came up to help He Mai move the things on the ground.
"I don't need to." He Mai said coldly, "Auntie, let's find a place with a lot of aunts and mothers-in-law to talk, we can't chat, and there is nothing to chat." ”
She took another bag of pastries in Mrs. Dong's hand, and seeing that her eyes were on it, she simply picked up the two packets of pastries on the ground and took them into the stove.
Mrs. Dong twitched her hand stupidly, and saw that there was nothing good on the ground, so she simply wandered around the yard - she didn't really come to help Hemai!
When He Mai came out of the stove room, he saw that Mrs. Dong had walked out of the yard with a bundle of firewood at some point.
"Stinky old woman, how did you steal!?" He Mai was furious and scolded without words.
Mrs. Dong was carrying a bundle of firewood on her back and snickering with joy, but when she saw that He Mai didn't give her face like this, her face sank.
"Just take a bundle of firewood, you girl is stingy!" She glared at He Mai, "I watched your father grow up, and when he brought your mother back, I also brought a bag of candy to you, and I had to be enough for you to have a few bundles of firewood to return it!" ”
Seeing that He Mai was angry, as if she was about to chase it out, she hurriedly tossed the firewood on her shoulders, walked quickly under her feet, and shouted: "When your two brothers are in high school, I don't want your family's share of the money, and we don't owe each other in the future, won't it be done?" You girl, you're really not a settling scorer! ”
"Whew!" He Mai looked at the back of Mrs. Dong and scolded angrily, kicking away the firewood scattered at her feet with a huff, but she was not relieved.
"I'll let this old woman take away a bundle of firewood, and my Lin character will be written in reverse!"
He Mai shouted this, but saw Xiao Hei trembling with fright.
"Don't do your business, go play." He Mai squatted down and rubbed the little black hairy head, and the anger in his heart dissipated a lot.
I don't know if Yang Liulang deliberately delayed the time and didn't come back, or if he discussed something with Xu Jiang at home, and didn't come down the hillside until evening.
Seeing that the house had been cleaned up neatly, and He Mai was cooking dinner in the stove room, Yang Liulang looked a little cramped.
When he entered the stove room, he whispered to He Mai: What do you do at night? Shall I help you?
"No," He Mai shook his head, "I'll be eating right away." ”
Yang Liulang silently set up the table in the house, brought empty dishes and chopsticks, and rushed to add rice and vegetables when He Mai came, and the two ate silently, although they didn't say anything superfluous, but the atmosphere was peaceful.
After eating, He Mai took out the four taels of silver he had obtained from selling the game in the restaurant today, and the one hundred and fifty copper coins he had obtained from selling the roe deer skins at the grocery store, and wanted to give them to Yang Liulang.
"I'm really not good at money, the woman's family is fine, you can help me keep it." Yang Liulang said lightly.
He didn't give He Mai a chance to refute, he just turned around and walked out of the hall silently, and went into the courtyard to drum something.
He Mai had no choice but to give up, and when he slept at night, he looked at the small wooden box containing the silver coins, and sighed lightly in his heart.
Now that the seeds have been bought, the land that Yang Liulang has carved out outside his house can be planted.
It is said that he is busy planting vegetables in the spring days, and now, He Mai has seeds in his hands, and he has finished his family work, and he is too busy to raise his head in that vegetable field.
Yang Liulang bought a lot of seeds, and it seems that he came according to Hemai's preferences, buying eggplant, lettuce, persimmon, cucumber, broad beans and pepper seeds, all of which are delicious vegetables that Hemai loves.
Now is the time to grow these greens.
Before sowing the seeds, the wheat took a basin and sprinkled some water into the ground, but not too much. If you sprinkle too much water, the soil will be too wet, and the seeds will not only fail to germinate, but will also rot.
After loosening the soil and sprinkling some water, the seeds lay quietly in the soil.
Finally, the upper layer of soil is covered with a thin layer of soil, so that the seeds sleep peacefully in the soil, and after only two or three months, they can eat refreshing and delicious food.
Shangtian hurriedly finished the work in the vegetable field, He Mai hurriedly made lunch, ate it with Liulang, and went to Qin's place again the next day.
The pastries I bought yesterday sent two packs to the Qin family, one to the mountain grass, and one to Hemai himself.
Talking to Qin about getting a vegetable field, Qin said with a smile: "Okay, it's easy to get a small vegetable field, you can grow whatever you want, it's very convenient." ”
Qin said and pointed to the hens in the old nest in the yard, and said, "The chickens have hatched out of two litters, can you take a few back and keep them at home?" ”
He Mai wanted to nod and agree, but he thought about the troublemaker in the yard at home, so he shook his head with a smile and said, "Milk, leave it here for a while, and when the puppy grows up, I will take the chicken back." ”
If you take it back now, I'm afraid it will become Xiao Hei's plaything!
Rokuro wasn't at home when he went back, and he came back when it was almost time to make dinner.
When something like yesterday happened, he naturally wouldn't enter the door and tell He Mai what he had done today, but walked to the stove room and saw what he could do to help.
He Mai remembered that in the past, when she was cooking dinner, there were only the two of them in the stove room, but they were always full of happiness and joy, and compared with today, the situation really worried her.
For a few days, they seemed to have said yes, and they tacitly maintained such a distance from each other.
Not as cordial as before, but never alienated.
Even the mountain grass who came to visit the house saw them, but did not notice anything unusual, but secretly told He Mai that she really married the right person, and found a mile that knows how hot and cold will hurt people!
Such days lasted for a few days, until Liu Er Mazi reappeared, and it was broken.
Before going out that day, Yang Liulang also talked to He Mai that Tian Dacheng's family in the town had something to do, and he needed a few of their brothers to help, so he went out.
When he had finished tending in the vegetable patch outside, he returned to the house.
Yesterday Rokuro went up the mountainside and shot two more rabbits, and yesterday there was a lot of trouble, and the skin was still soaked in alkaline water.
He Mai took the rabbit skin out of the alkaline water, followed the example of Rokuro in the past, removed the meat fat from the rabbit skin, and then smeared it with salt.
After carefully rubbing the salt on the rabbit's skin, he got up and took the bamboo strips so that the four feet of the rabbit's skin could be stretched out so that they could be dried.
As soon as I got up, I saw a figure flashing on the small dirt slope outside the door.